Beaver St
21 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Beaver St, between 1914 and 1980, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about parks and playgrounds, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Parks and playgrounds5Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s3Rocky Mountain Cooperative Nursery School to use the Peixotto clubhouse · 1980
- 1970s2Land bought at Noe and Beaver Streets for open space · 1978
- 1950s2$1.0M of bond money voted to rebuild the Municipal Railway · 1950
- 1940s2$3,000 paid to Alli Helle for a fall on Forest Way · 1945
- 1920s2City to auction its lots on Fifteenth Street near Castro Street · 1923
- 1910s10Nearby lots to pay for extending Beverly Street to Holloway Avenue · 1914
The most notable decisions
$1.0M of bond money voted to rebuild the Municipal Railway
Ordinance · 24 April 1950 ↗$80,000 for building Portola Playground finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 8 May 1950 ↗Land bought at Noe and Beaver Streets for open space
Resolution · 13 November 1978 ↗Rocky Mountain Cooperative Nursery School to use the Peixotto clubhouse
Ordinance · 20 October 1980 ↗Nearby lots to pay for extending Beverly Street to Holloway Avenue
Resolution · 29 June 1914 ↗Retaining wall and sidewalk ordered on Fifteenth Street for Margaret Gettinger
Ordinance · 22 October 1917 ↗City to auction its lots on Fifteenth Street near Castro Street
Ordinance · 7 May 1923 ↗Street levels changed on Wilde, Leland and Beaver streets
Ordinance · 27 September 1915 ↗Street levels to change on Beaver Street near Castro Street
Ordinance · 27 September 1915 ↗Schmidt Lithograph finally granted its Bryant Street spur track
Ordinance · 5 June 1916 ↗
Where this comes from
Every decision the record places on this street is here. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city